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Department of Health and Human Services Historic Preservation Programs  

Mission: The Department of Health and Human Services is the United States government's principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves.

 

Federal Preservation Officer (FPO): Scott Waldman, 202 619 0719, Scott.Waldman@hhs.gov, 709D, HHH Bldg., 200 Independence Ave., S. W., DC 20201.

 

Agency web site: www.hhs.gov

 

Agency's Historic Preservation Policy, Procedures, Guidance:

  • Public Health Service Facilities Manual (Volume I), Chapter 3-1, "Facility Master Planning," PHS Transmittal 93.3 (4/23/93) (see reference to NHPA at p. 2.).
     
  • Public Health Service Facilities Manual (Volume I), Chapter 3-2, "Environmental Impact Procedures," PHS Transmittal 93.3 (4/23/93) (see reference to NHPA at p. 2 and Checklist at 2-3.).
     
  • Public Health Service Facilities Manual (Volume I), Chapter 3-4, "Site Selection," PHS Transmittal 93.3 (4/23/93) (see reference to NHPA at p. 2.).
     
  • Public Health Service Facilities Manual (Volume I), Chapter 3-5, "Feasibility Studies," PHS Transmittal 93.3 (4/23/93) (see reference to NHPA at p. 2.).
     
  • HHS Public Health Service Grant Application, (see "Assurances-Non-Construction Programs" and Assurances-Construction Programs"), http://bphc.hrsa.gov/grants/wordocs/PHS5161-1.pdf.
     
  •  (Draft) HHS Chapter 24-07, General Administration Manual, "Historic Preservation," including appendices setting out "Model Programmatic Agreement (PA) format (Exhibit G) and Survey Guidelines (Exhibit H).
     
  • Memorandum of Agreement Among the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Military Department, State of Louisiana, Army National Guard, the Louisiana State Historic Preservation Officer, and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation Regarding the Transfer of the Property Now Occupies By the Gillis W. Long Hansen's Disease Center, Carville, Louisiana, to the State of Louisiana.
     
  • Head Start Draft Programmatic Environmental Assessment (Section 3.11 deals with Cultural Resources; see also references to historic properties at 19 and 75.)